Week 6, Day 1

Welcome to Week 6 of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are so proud of everyone, all of you have been crushing it! We’re looking forward to seeing you keep it up and continue working on your projects! We hope that this curriculum load continues to suit you well.

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09.

Our first expert guest speaker this week is Kam Gardner on Monday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET; Kam is a speech language pathologist who treats patients with cognitive impairments related to a brain injury. You can read her short bio here.

Our second expert guest speaker this week is Dr. Julie Stamm on Monday at 12:00 pm PT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET; Dr. Stamm is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Kinesiology at UW Madison and the author of “The Brain on Youth Sports: The Science, the Myths, and the Future.” Read more about her here.

We’ll have our Concussion (2015) and League of Denial (2013) Discussion on Wednesday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.  It is scheduled for an hour and a half due to the quantity of content we are going to cover with both movies (don’t worry, we will have a ten minute break built in!) Questions are coming soon!

We will be having project draft review meetings with Conor, Malayka, Kira, PMs, and project partners on Wednesday and Thursday this week. The link to sign up is here!

We’ll also have one group social activity this week! We have our weekly Social Hour on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

  1. Check Slack for new messages.

  2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal, or on the shared Google Calendar.

  3. Check the ‘day page’ for tasks & content.

  4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources.

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack.

  6. Check in with your project partner on Slack .

There are Four Task to do today:

  • Decide with your group a time to have your project draft meeting this Wednesday or Thursday

    • If you feel your draft will be complete enough by midday Wednesday please sign up for a slot then!

  • Finish your project draft - get it fleshed out to the point where you are comfortable discussing it with Conor, Malayka, Kira, and your PM. These should be as complete as possible, but they are still drafts!

  • Thank-you to Dr. Etheredge

    • Please write a note to Dr. Etheredge thanking her for speaking last Thursday. As part of showing professionalism and respect to our speakers for taking time out of their schedules to talk to us, we try to send these thank you notes back within 2 business days of their talk. You can write your note here.

  • Keep an eye out for newsletter edits!

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

Unit 1: Football and Sports Industrial Complex (~2 hrs)

Unit 4: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Week 6: Reviews, Commentaries, and Opinion Pieces & the Publication Process

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~2 hrs)